Which Monster From The Dark Universe Are You, Based On Your Zodiac? – Screen Rant

The Dark Universe, Universal Studios' answer to the MCU featuring icons from classic horror films, focuses on a shared universe comprised of interconnected monster movies. An ambitious undertaking, it began with the release ofThe Mummyin 2017 and continued withThe Invisible Manin 2020, with several more reboots on the way.

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The uneven success of the first films in the Dark Universe have led Universal to focus more on rebooting its famous monster flicks for a new generation, rather thanworrying about their horror icons featuring in each other's stories. Every monster is known to have its own unique personality based on its origins, and in the Dark Universe. they're even more developed than ever before, making them the perfect embodiment ofthe zodiac signs.

Charismatic, hedonistic, and daring,Mr. Hyde is all the things that the well-comported, clinical, and cautious Dr. Jekyll is not. When Dr. Jekyll created the serum to transform him into the man he most wished to become, Hyde is what heturned into for better or worse.

Mr. Hyde possesses all the most desirable and destructive traits of an Aries. While he's confident and charming, he can also be brutish and aggressive, with no thought for the physical or personal boundaries of others.

Once known as a scientist named Adrian Griffin, transformed by scientific experiments and consumed by his obsession for his ex-girlfriend, he became the malevolent being known as the Invisible Man.

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Like many Tauruses, The Invisible Man is understandably a private person. His loyalty is without question, but he's guarded around those that would abuseaccess to his vulnerable side, and may even kill to protect the parts of himself he doesn't want revealed.

Though he may be cobbled together from cadavers of indeterminable age and stand seven feet tall, Frankenstein's Monsterpossesses all the intellectual curiosity and vitality of a newborn.

Like a youthful Gemini, he is overly energetic about things he likes, and his enthusiasm may come off as destructive. He can be quick to anger and self-indulgent, but ultimately only wants to please the people around him.

The perfect mate for Frankenstein's Monster, the Bride of Frankenstein is built to be a companion, but ultimately finds she craves her independence more than being tethered to someone like her.

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Like many Cancers, the Bride of Frankenstein can be incredibly loving and emotive until she doesn't want to be.Due toher inherent mood changes, one moment she can revel in socializing and the next she wants to throw her guests out.

Once known as Lawrence Talbot, the prodigal son of a wealthy English aristocrat, he returned to his family home to make amends with his father and forge a stronger familial legacy. When he accidentally killed a gypsy's son with a silver cane, he took on a terrible curse that transformed him intothe Wolfman.

Like Leos, the Wolfman is a creature of broad displays of emotion and aggression. He is at once faithful and loving to the woman he desires as his human self, while also being savage and reckless when possessed by the curse.

Meticulous and fastidious, Dr Jekyll spends his life trying to appear as friendly and convivial as possible, all the while suppressing the evil urges that lurk within his character. When he invents a serum to eliminate them for good, he ingests it and accidentally becomes Mr. Hyde.

Like many Virgos, Dr. Jekyll is diligent and a worrier, oftenplacing concern for the opinions of others above his own happiness. Unfortunately, his need to be perfect had the undesirable effect of creating a means to become a remorseless monster.

The original 1939 incarnation of Imhotep (the Mummy) isa doomed prince who, after being resurrected from deathby a team of archaeologists, assumes the identity of a charming socialite and searches Egypt for his lost love's reincarnated form. In 2017, Imhotep is replaced by Ahmanet, a betrayed goddess bent on revenge for her entombment, hoping to awaken her lover, Set.

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In both instances, the Mummy embodies all the sensibilities of a Libra, whose romanticism can quickly turn to self-indulgence. The sign's tendencies towards over-confidence and charmtend to make them gullible and easily influenced, which is usually how they're outsmarted or entombed.

Born with a disfigurement in an uncompassionate world, Erikis a young boy who found refuge in the bowels of the Paris Opera House. There he gained an appreciation for its pageantry and composed operas for its ingenue, Christine, whom he formed an obsessive attachment to. He took on the persona of the Phantomand killed all those who opposed him.

As the Phantom, Erik is dark and mysterious like a Scorpio, capable ofconveying passion and magnetism to entice Christine. When she decides she prefers the affections of Raoul, her childhood sweetheart, the Phantom becomes possessive, resentful, and overwhelmingly jealous.

Originally,The Invisible Woman(1940) was a sci-fi comedy about a mad professor who experimented with an invisibility serum on a department store model. Once she's invisible, she delights in taking revenge on an old bossand becomes the object of a millionaire's desire. Elizabeth Banks will direct and star in the 2020 remake for Universal Studios.

When she has the power of invisibility, the Invisible Woman takes advantage of her freedom like a true Sagittarius, and there's never a dull moment. Unfortunately, she can be careless and irresponsible with her powers, and runs afoul of some unscrupulous gangsters who want them.

In the original 1939 version ofThe Hunchback of Notre Dame,the hunchbacked bellringer of the Notre Dame cathedral, Quasimodo, falls in love with a beautiful gypsy girl, whose life is jeopardized by the evilArchdeacon Frollo. The Dark Universe version is expected in 2022.

Like many Capricorns, the Hunchback is reliable, disciplined, and hard-working. Unfortunately, without human kindness, he became fatalistic. When Esmeralda chooses another man over him, Quasimodo wonders why he can't be made of stone like the gargoyles that surround him.

Bram Stoker's Dracula, the Prince of Darkness, and the most famous vampire of all time will be given another origin story after its most recent retelling inDracula: Untold.The untitled Dracula filmwill debut sometime after 2022 and is still in the pre-production phase.

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Like many Aquarians, Dracula is a contrary creature of urbane sophistication and mercurial affections. He is at once a friendly and inviting host, as well as anemotionally detachedkiller. Like his sign, he is fiercely independent and answers to no one, making him the most powerful of all bloodsuckers.

In the 1954 horror classic, the Creature from the Black Lagoon is found when geologists in the Amazon find evidence linking sea life to land mammals. They discover an amphibious humanoid known as "Gill-Man," who fixates on one of the scientist's beautiful girlfriend. A remake for the Dark Universe is currently in develop for a 2022 release.

As piscine as they come, the Creature is curious, intuitive, and ultimately sympathetic, a being used for experiments without his consent. Only after the scientists threaten to harm him does he shed his Pisces personality, stalking the lagoon and waiting to devour them.

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Kayleena has been raised on Star Wars and Indiana Jones from the crib. A film buff, she has a Western collection of 250+ titles and counting that she's particularly proud of. When she isn't writing for ScreenRant, CBR, or The Gamer, she's working on her fiction novel, lifting weights, going to synthwave concerts, or cosplaying. With degrees in anthropology and archaeology, she plans to continue pretending to be Lara Croft as long as she can.

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